Placket-closure.



IJVVENTR PATENTED JAN. 17, 1905.

R. B. NORWOOD.

PLAGKET ULOSURE.

APPLIOATION FILED APR 12 1904 n Y n sh f xlillwwx j Patented January 1'?, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

RICHARD B. NORWOOD, OF PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGN OR, BY

DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO JOHN J. SLEVIN, OF PLAIN- FIELD, NEW JERSEY.

PLACKET-CLOSURE..

SPECIFICATION forming part of 'Letters Patent No. 780,440, dated January 17, 1905. Application iled April 12, 1904. Serial No. 202,779.

To @ZZ whom, t may con/cern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD B. NoRwooD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Placket-Closures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to improvements in devices for fastening the slit in the skirt of female wearing-apparel and known as placket-closures; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of the same, all as will behereinafter more fully eX- plained, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

. rIhe annexed drawings, to which reference is made, fully illustrate my invention, in whichy Figure l represents a face view of my placket-closure- Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a face view of one of the plates, and Fig. 4 is a rear view of the plate. f

Referring by letter to the' accompanying drawings, A designates the skirt-fastener, which comprises twin plates a a', each being provided with a broad upper portion, as at I) and an extension or arm o 0, as well as angular gripping-plates Z d arranged on the rear face of .the broad plates aforesaid. The plate a is provided with a projection e, having a slot f, that engages a spring-catchy, having a push-pin 71 said spring being arranged within a housing e' on the plate a and provided at one end with an opening 7c for the insertion of the slotted tongue or projection on the opposite plate when the two plates are brought together' for fastening a skirt upon the wearer.

Having thus described the various parts of which my placket-closure is composed, I will the person.

the twin plates are brought together the springengages the slot by its hooked point m, thus retaining the placket in a closed position at all times and under any conditions in which the dress may be held. At the same time the Vangulargripping-plates grasp the lower portion of the waist between the teeth thereof, and said waist is firmly held in position upon In releasing the twin plates from .one another the operator simply pushes the Ybutton or pin, thus releasing the slotted tongue from the hooked spring, when the two parts will readily separate. At the same time the toothed angular plates simultaneously release their grasp from the wearers waist, and

a device as herein described is simple in conv with a housing, spring-catch and angular toothed plate, and the other section having a slotted tongue and angular toothed plate, for the purposes described.

struction, easily and quickly operated, ineX- ln testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD B. NORVOOD. Witnesses:

WILLIAM G. DEMIZA', MAMIE V. CARNEY. 

